‘Let it be Under our Thumb’ – the History of the Seanad
A brief history of the Irish Senate, By John Dorney. In a recent (October 2013) referendum, the Irish electorate voted not to …
Who was Seamus Dwyer?
Michael McKenna tells the forgotten story of the life and death of Seamus Dwyer, Sinn Fein and IRA activist and pro-Treaty politician, …
Making Sense of the Irish Civil War – A Conversation with Gavin Foster
Professor Gavin Foster of the Department of Canadian Irish studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec in conversation with John Dorney about the Irish …
Book Review – The Civic Guard Mutiny
Title: The Civic Guard Mutiny Author: Brian McCarthy Publisher: Mercier Press Date of Publication: 2012 ISBN: 978-1-78117-045-8 Price: €14.99 Reviewer: Cathal Brennan The …
Book Review: From Pogrom to Civil War, Tom Glennon and the Belfast IRA
Title: From Pogrom to Civil War, Tom Glennon and the Belfast IRA Author: Kieran Glennon ISBN: 978-1-78117-146-2 Price: €19.99 (Cheaper from the …
The Irish Story Archive on the Irish War of Independence
The Irish War of Independence was a guerrilla conflict, conventionally said to have lasted from 1919-1921. It resulted in the independence of …
Report on Irish Civil War Conference, Drogheda, September 2012
Cathal Brennan reports from the John Boyle O’Reilly Autumn School conference on the Irish Civil War On the 16th of September John …